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. 2023 Feb 14;14:1124750. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1124750

Table 1.

Lettuce cultivation characteristics of three independent experimental repetitions in April (1), May (2) and September (3).

Lettuce cultivation
characteristics
Experimental
repetition
Lettuce cultivation condition
Without polytunnel Polytunnel with antifog Polytunnel without antifog
Daily light integral
(mol m-2 d-1)
1 7.23 ± 1.91AB,a 5.81 ± 1.63AB,b 5.33 ± 1.41B,b
2 9.01 ± 3.34A,a 7.10 ± 2.36A,b 7.07 ± 2.22A,b
3 5.97 ± 3.41B,a 4.30 ± 0.31B,ab 2.10 ± 0.21C,b
Photoperiod
(daylight, h)
1 13.37 ± 0.41B
2 15.14 ± 0.55A
3 12.67 ± 0.60C
Temperature
(°C)
1 22.61 ± 0.54a 25.29 ± 1.61AB,b 25.19 ± 1.43AB,b
2 23.04 ± 1.17a 26.06 ± 2.26A,b 26.28 ± 2.38A,b
3 22.57 ± 0.80a 24.07 ± 0.78B,b 24.05 ± 0.77B,b
Relative humidity
(%)
1 42.98 ± 3.90C,a 86.30 ± 8.77B,b 91.79 ± 8.89c
2 46.67 ± 5.76B,a 90.43 ± 5.75AB,b 92.13 ± 5.14b
3 56.52 ± 5.67A,a 95.48 ± 1.82A,b 95.48 ± 1.67b

Lettuce was grown without or under polytunnels with and without antifogging additives. Data are shown as averaged values (mean ± SD) monitored continuously over the experimental period. Capital letters indicate significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) between the three repetitions within similar cultivation conditions. Lower case letters indicate significant differences (p ≤ 0.05) between cultivation conditions within one experimental repetition; no letters indicate absence of significance.